Other Information

Websites

Interviewing

Global Perspective Program - Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Handbook for IQP Advisors and Students - Chapter 11: Introduction to Interviewing Techniques: http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/GPP/Students/ch11.html

Oral History

East Midlands Oral History Archive training materials: http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/training.html

Oral History Society: http://www.oralhistory.org.uk/

Oral History 'Workshop and Resources': http://www.baylor.edu/oralhistory/

Shopes, L. History Matters - Making Sense of Oral History: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/oral/

Qualitative Data

Forum: Qualitative Research: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-eng.htm

Greenhalgh , T. & Taylor, R. How to read a paper. Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research). Introducing non-experts to finding medical articles and assessing their value: http://www.bmj.com/content/315/7110/740.full

General Guidelines for Conducting Interviews, adapted from Michael Patton's book, "Qualitative Evaluation and Research Methods" (Sage Publications, 1990): http://www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/intrview.htm

Qualidata: http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/about/introduction.asp

Books

Perks & Thompson (eds) (2006) The Oral History Reader. 2nd edition, Routledge.

Rubin, H. J., and Rubin, I. S. (2006). Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. 2nd edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Seidman, I. E. (2006). Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences, 3rd edition. New York: Teacher's College Press.

Steinar, K. (2007). Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. 2nd edition, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Thompson, P. (2000) Voice of the Past. 3rd edition, Oxford University Press.

Yow, V.R. (2005). Recording oral history: a practical guide for social scientists. 2nd edition, Sage.